Posted Friday, September 13,
2002
From
an online
Q&A session
with Dr. Efraim Zuroff (Director of Simon
Wiesenthal Centrum in Jerusalem):
Questioner:
Can you give us an approximate number of Jews
who where killed by gassing. Why the number of killed
Jews varies between 6 million (number which is product of
post war de-nazification process in Germany) and ~ 600
000 (based on latest
scientific works on Holocaust)? There has never been
even the slightest conclusive proof for such a campaign
of promiscuous slaughter on the part of Germany, and, in
the meantime, all reliable evidence continues to suggest
with increasing volume and impact that this genocide
legend is a deliberate and brazen falsification.
Therefore, why there isn't any hard evidence, what would
confirm the existence of gas chambers for industrial
extermination of people (Jews)? Were the natural physics
and chemical laws applicable (in force) during the
1942-45?
Can you comment on the human Soap
(RIF) story, which was brought up by individuals such
as Simon Wiesenthal and Stephen
Wise, organizations like the World Jewish
Congress, and the victorious Allied powers, none of whom
has ever apologized for promoting this vile falsehood. In
April 1990, professor Yehuda Bauer of Israel's
Hebrew University, regarded as a leading Holocaust
historian, as well as Shmuel Krakowski, archives
director of Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust center,
confirmed that the human soap story is not true. Camp
inmates "were prepared to believe any horror stories
about their persecutors," Bauer said. Deborah
Lipstadt, a professor of modern Jewish history,
similarly "rewrote history" when she confirmed in 1981:
"The fact is that the Nazis never used the bodies of
Jews, or for that matter anyone else, for the production
of soap."
Dr.
Efraim Zuroff: The Holocaust is the
most-documented genocide in history and therefore your
comments that there was no campaign of mass murder are
outrageous and constitute
Holocaust denial.
As far as your statement on the production of soap
from Jewish victims, it is true that this apparently did
not take place, but that in no way diminishes the extent
and scope of the Nazis' genocidal campaign against the
Jewish people.
Related items on this website:
Auschwitz index-
Survival in the Death
Camps
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Dossier on death roll
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Dr
Fritjof Meyer (Der Spiegel) cuts the legends down to
size, May 2002
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